Quote: compare Searle's Chinese room argument to an argument against light as electro-magnetism

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consider a deliberately manufactured parallel to [Searle's Chinese room argument] and its supporting thought experiment. Axiom 1. Electricity and magnetism … themselves are neither constitutive of nor sufficient for … "Consider a dark room containing a man holding … according to Maxwell's theory of artificial luminance (AL), … Even though Searle's Chinese room may appear to … that rule-governed symbol manipulation can never constitute semantic … that need to be explained.   Google-1   Google-2

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Quote: just as waving a bar magnet doesn't generate visible light, small-scale symbol manipulation does not produce semantic phenomena

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